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Recommendations for RPN Calculators?
sg3000 asks: "My trusty old HP 48S graphing calculator, that served me since engineering school, seems to be giving up the ghost. I haven't used it in a few years, but recently I put new batteries in it. It works, but it makes a loud static/white noise sound when it's on. The noise is not as noticeable when I hold it, but when I set it down on a hard surface, it's really loud. Then it sucks the batteries down incredibly fast (I put new batteries in it, and two days later, they were drained). Any suggestions on what I should buy as a replacement?"
"I'm in graduate school now, and since I'm taking an accounting course, where they don't want us digging out our laptops during a test, I need to buy another calculator. I'm a big fan of reverse polish notation (RPN), so I'd prefer to get another HP calculator.
Do companies still make calculators? I'd love to get another HP 48, but I'm not even sure if HP even makes calculators like that any longer -- on their web site, they're all cheapo-looking single line deals. I've read about something called an HP 48g, but HP has nothing about it on their web site."
it really stands for Reversed Pants Negroid
Who let the fucktards do the moderation?
RPN is a mere hack and used by anally retentive personality people.
As any programmer knows RPN was created to make the user interface more hostile at the benefit of a calculator.
All the popwerful calculators now have full editable formula input screens complete with PARENS.
The parenthesis is a safe adn metally clean way to show precedence without the awkward postfix RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) idiocy of older calcualtors.
The amrketplace has spoken.
With modern desktop computers, people prefer to "indicate' rather than 'regurgitate" and use mice and not syntax-error-prone command lines.
The Mac mouse won the command line wars, and the parenthesis and pretty "graphing" 16 dollar casios won the calculator war.
For predicate calculus and matrix and much more people prefer things similar to Mathematica on a personal laptop.
The world moved on.
Its time to use PRN as a silly Palm Pilor calculator applet as they exist now. Iam sure there are several freeware RPN calculator programs for PalmOS.
The palm also runs its own 68K assembler and debugger on the palm itself so you could jsut write your own calculator without need of any palm development tools.
A used 8MB palm from 3 years ago was 129 dollars brand new, I suppose they would be 50 dollars used if people upgrade and part with theirs.
8MB for a calculator is a lot of storage, and you can add a numeric keypad to a palm easily from many vendors for use in accoounting.
They don't. C4ffeine is an idiot. (As if it wasn't already obvious from the fact that he prefers Ti...)
Modding that comment as a troll shows what utter fucking retards some Slashdot mods are.
This one, true as it is, may qualify as a troll. Who cares though? You're still a fucking retard, mod.
Just because a post isn't some long winded whishy washy touchy feely pseudo-intellectual ramblings doesn't mean it's a god damn troll.
Mod it brief, rude, consice, to the point, the truth hurts, whatever actually fit's it. But don;t mod it troll.
Learn what a troll if you assbastard mods.
Those posts about windows blazing ahead twice as fast because linux doesnt have 64 bit yet...those are trolls! LEARN WHAT A FUCKING TROLL IS YOU ANAL BUCANEER!
hehehe, reminds me of an old joke:
Where does cliff keep his HP calculator?
Same place he stores his dick - rammed up Taco's ass!